they built upon the lessons that you wrote down on a scroll they built up a temple to unite and keep us whole gold temple gold temple gold temple gold temple
we built upon the lessons that you taught earned what we earned fought for what we wrought and now she's left the garden and the temple walls are gone she's gonna build one of her own out of the words shes caught the walls are golden although they're made of stone and a heart that knows there's nothing inside until you capture it in your gold temple gold temple gold temple gold temple
and we give it our best go sometimes you (we) (I) make it sometimes you (we) (I) don't